Don’t Play Around with Adsense and Your Sites
By Desty on Mar 2, 2008 in Blog Business
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Earlier in the week, I had planned to make several changes with Desty Online, new theme, adding adsense, and writing articles based upon Google’s search trends to see if I could capitalize on current trends and turn that traffic into $$$.
While I was able to get some traffic from Google Trends, I didn’t have Adsense installed that day, so I didn’t know if that traffic was clickworthy. I added adsense the next day, missed the traffic, and got 1 click. whee…
The downside though was that in two days with adsense on Desty Online, my entire set of sites with adsense got smart priced! It couldn’t have came at a worse time! I had just posted a very popular funny video on my funny video site, and the traffic started to POUR in! I’m not kidding. I haven’t seen these numbers outside of a stumble upon spike. The numbers kept increasing! And the clicks started to pour in as well. The sad thing was that they were .01 to .03 cent clicks! It killed me!
So I wiped off adsense from Desty Online Friday, and now on Sunday my $per click is starting to return to normal.
There is actually a great business lession in all of this. When you have what you consider seperate businesses, but they are linked by a common infrastructure (adsense in the case of websites) be ready for a period of downtime as those changes take place. That downtime will effect your other sites, so don’t start a new push for traffic on those other sites. Smart pricing is not a fun thing! You waste your time, efforts, and valuable traffic.
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Hey, Desty,
I’m hoping you can tell me–what the heck is smart pricing from Google? I get .01 and .03 clicks sometimes and HATE it! So, what am I doing wrong here?
Thanks in advance!
To give credit where credit is due, this is the best article I’ve read about smart pricing…also a great site for online marketing
http://courtneytuttle.com/2008/01/02/how-to-get-worthless-adsense-clicks/
Very helpful! Thank you!
Good information to know..
When I first started blogging, I didn’t really recommend getting a professionally done theme, but I notice that the trend in blogging is successful bloggers but money into their business, so that is one good thing to do!
yeah I’ve seen similar problems.
I’ve added a plugin to only show ads to search engine visitors, but then the only income has dropped off.